In many ways, the L.A. River altered the lives of gallerist Sean Meredith and artist Debra Scacco — though at different times and under different circumstances.
Meredith, director of Track 16 gallery downtown, didn’t care much for Los Angeles the entire first decade of living here after he relocated from New Jersey in 1992 — he saw the city as an inaccessible, concrete sprawl. Then he moved to Atwater Village in 2002 and began biking and taking long dog walks along the banks of the L.A. River, which he found surprisingly brimming with wildlife.
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